Tristan da Cunha is a veritable metropolis next to South Georgia Island, which has no permenant residents but a museum and research station, yet more tourists, and countless penguins. The only settlement — if you can call it that — is Grytviken.
It has a little church of Norwegian origins, and remarkably enough, witnessed its first […]
My regular readers know I have an odd interest in remote places. There’s something fascinating about the romance of adventure and a more immediate, to-the-soil-or-sea way of life: a romance I prefer to observe by Internet. And there’s a resonance of God seeking out the lost or liminal. As a subset, I’m fascinated by Christian […]
Every once in a while I go looking for the most liminal church I can find, geographically-speaking. Now I look to Antartica, and find the Chapel of the Snows, at McMurdo Station. That’s the main American scientific station.
This chapel is the third there, the last having been destroyed by fire. It is open twenty-four hours […]
Call me silly but I have a fascination with mixed-use (or interfaith) religious architecture with a particular period (post-WWII it seems) feature: turntable altars.
This interest was fostered by its odd, gee-wizz, and even its kitch character, but the original inquiry came out of some thought around the appropriate interworking of worship in governmental settings, like […]
There’s a passage of scripture that is a appropriately popular, Acts 1:8:
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will bear witness for me in Jerusalem, and throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and even in the farthest corners of the earth.
That’s a heavy mandate for li’l ol’ me who […]
I was telling a colleague-friend of some Navy resources I’ve found that might make a good basis for equipping and training lay worship leaders and assistants (there are so many names for this ministry, I scarcely know where to begin) and I thought I’d share them here, too.
On the other hand, I love to read […]
Sad news about the six members of a religious order, the Melanesian Brotherhood, taken hostage in the Solomon Islands: a warlord confirms that all are dead. Please pray for the deceased.
A news story from Australia and this official obituary fill-in the story.
I first learned of the Melanesian Brotherhood when I found their liturgy, and discovered […]
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